“If I can’t laugh, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.” And thus began the celebration of feminists amid oodles of laughter, spontaneous singing and dancing.

Music is a mission for the illustrious Sopori family. Along with their santoor legend father Pt Bhajan Sopori, brothers Abhay Rustum and Sohrab Sopori have taken up ‘musical activism’ in order to revive the dying folk music and traditional instruments of Kashmir.

Making the most of what’s available has been Neelam Kaicker’s motto. The 51-year-old has transformed a barren three-acre municipal land, overlooking her Defence Colony house, into a lush, manicured garden.
“Thirty years back, when I came here after marriage, there was no trace of greenery here. It was an open, unattended plot. Even my reception was held here,” she says.

Author Shobhaa De is agitated after a recent encounter with sexual harassment in the capital’s Bengali Market.

Heroes being cast opposite heroines decades younger than them is a norm in Bollywood. All the big stars, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn have been paired with actresses much younger than them. But it seems an interesting trend is setting in.

The rich and the famous generously loosen their purse strings for a cause. At the first edition of the three-day Jodhpur One World Retreat, an initiative by Jodhpur’s Maharaja Gaj Singh II that aims to raise funds for the Indian Head Injury Foundation (IHIF), a number of royal artifacts (not from the Maharaja’s personal collection) were auctioned to garner support for the cause of alarming rise in head injuries in India.

Big daddies of Indian fashion Rohit Bal, Manish Arora and Tarun Tahiliani have been favourites with Hollywood divas for some time now. But now some upcoming contemporary desi designers are turning haute favourites of global fashionistas.

Sufism is the way of life for multi-talented Muzaffar Ali. And his life is a journey of self-discovery through films, paintings, costumes, music. This month, Jahan-e-Khusrau, the Sufi festival started by him, completed 12 years, but there’s a long way to go and much more to learn from the mystic masters, believes Muzaffar Ali.

Money can’t buy you everything, and certainly not time with your kids. Young, working, urban parents are forever fighting for time. And then, there are other problems like the lack of family support in nuclear set-ups, financial hassles and issues pertaining to the overall all development of their children. So, they are forever trying to deal with guilt and anxiety.

For artist Swati Pasari, art is not just passion, it also has a purpose. The 25-year-old artist, who’s also a pranic healer, has full faith in the therapeutic properties of colours. That’s why she uses her works to heal.